Chapter 387 Sealing the embryonic form of the Emperor Pill and refining it

Shen Wen raised his hand and caught the Medicinal Pill in his palm.

Silver-gray Space Power surged from his palm, transforming into countless tiny runes that sealed the Medicinal Pill layer by layer.

Zhu Kun stood to the side, watching this scene and swallowing hard.

"It's in your hands just like that?"

His voice was a bit hoarse.

Shen Wen looked down at the sealed pill in his palm and nodded.

He had originally wanted to wait a bit longer to be more stable.

But what happened at the Demon Fire Plain made him feel that he could no longer wait.

The Void Swallowing Flame was exposed, Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi had a direct confrontation, and the balance between the ancient clans was collapsing at a visible rate.

It just so happened that Zhu Kun invited him, so he came to try once more.

He found that it really worked.

Then he wouldn't be polite.

The two of them looked up at the same time at the hundred-zhang-tall stone statue.

The statue's eyes were still slightly closed, and the corners of its mouth wore that faint smile that was not quite a smile, as if it were completely unaware of everything that had just occurred.

Zhu Kun stared at the statue for a moment and suddenly spoke: "This is the emperors origin."

Shen Wen nodded.

"I can't get it." Zhu Kun's tone was calm, tinged with a bit of helplessness. "Even a Nine-Star Dou Sheng would find it difficult to damage this stone statue in the slightest. I was wondering before, but now I know—"

He paused and shook his head.

"It seems only those who Cultivate the Burning Technique can obtain the Legacy. Tuoshe Ancient Emperor is truly stingy."

Shen Wen did not speak.

He naturally knew.

The emperors origin left behind by Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was only open to those who cultivated the Burning Technique. This was the ancient emperor's obsession and his test for those who came after.

"It's normal." Shen Wen finally spoke. "But actually, one can become an Emperor even without this thing."

Zhu Kun turned to look at him.

Shen Wen did not hide anything and explained how the ancient Dou Di had joined forces to Seal the passage and the disappearance of Source Qi.

"Unless someone breaks the Seal, or waits for the Seal to break naturally, this world will never be able to give birth to a new Dou Di."

Zhu Kun was silent for a moment and gave a bitter smile.

"Who could possibly achieve such a thing?"

Shen Wen looked at him, his tone calm: "If I advance to Dou Di, I should be able to."

Zhu Kun was stunned for a moment.

He stared at Shen Wen for a while, then suddenly took a deep breath and looked down at the sealed pill in Shen Wen's palm.

"Then go ahead and refine it." His voice was low. "Once you become a Dou Di..."

"Does Father-in-law really not want it?" Shen Wen interrupted him, the corners of his mouth curling slightly. "That is a Dou Di."

Zhu Kun glared at him.

"What, even if you become a Dou Di, I'm still your father-in-law." He snorted. "Besides, Zi Yan is pregnant. If you become a Dou Di, Zi Yan's son will be of the first generation Dou Di Bloodline. If it were me, he would only be the second generation."

He paused, his tone becoming a bit more serious.

"I don't want my grandson's talent to be weaker than your other children."

Shen Wen was stunned.

"Zi Yan is pregnant?"

Zhu Kun nodded, a trace of softness flashing in his golden pupils.

"She wanted to give you a surprise." He waved his hand. "Alright. We should head out. As for this place, we'll wait for that kid Xiao Yan to come."

Shen Wen was silent for a moment and then nodded.

The two turned and walked back the way they came.

Silver-gray Space Power enveloped the two of them, and the surrounding scenery began to distort and blur.

The stone statue still stood at the end of the plaza, its eyes slightly closed and its mouth wearing that faint smile.

When Shen Wen returned to the Shen Residence, it was already late at night.

The lights in the Flower Hall were still on. Cao Ying was sitting on a soft couch holding Shen Yunlong, while Xiao Yi Xian was nearby flipping through a Pill Formula.

Seeing him enter, Cao Ying looked up and scanned him from head to toe.

"You're back?"

Shen Wen nodded, sat down beside her, and reached out to take Shen Yunlong.

The little guy was fast asleep, his small face buried in the swaddling clothes, breathing evenly.

Shen Wen looked down for a moment and then handed Shen Yunlong to a maidservant to be carried away.

"Where is Zi Yan?" he asked.

Cao Ying glanced at him, the corners of her lips curling slightly: "She's at Dragon Island. Said she wanted to give you a surprise."

Shen Wen was silent for a second.

He knew Zi Yan was pregnant, but Zhu Kun said the girl wanted to tell him herself.

He didn't point it out and simply nodded.

"I'm going into seclusion next." He spoke with a calm tone. "It might be for a long time."

The Flower Hall went quiet for a moment.

Xiao Yi Xian put down the Pill Formula, looked at him, and asked softly: "How long?"

"I don't know." Shen Wen leaned back in his chair, his gaze falling on the night scene outside the window. "A few months at the shortest, a year at the longest."

He didn't say why he was going into seclusion.

The women didn't ask either.

The next morning, Shen Wen stepped into the Quiet Room.

The stone door slowly closed behind him, isolating all sounds from the outside world.

He sat cross-legged and took out the sealed pill from his robes.

The emperor pill prototype.

The pill was pale gold all over, and the runes on its surface flowed quietly under the Seal of the silver-gray Space Power.

Shen Wen stared at it for a moment and took a deep breath.

Then, he began to refine it.

The moment the emperor pill prototype entered his body, a vast and suffocating power exploded.

That power was too immense and too pure, like a river bursting its banks, charging recklessly through his body.

A pale golden light surged from within him, illuminating the entire Quiet Room as bright as day.

Shen Wen gritted his teeth, and the power of the eight great ancestral talismans within him began to operate simultaneously.

The devouring ancestral talisman absorbed, the Flame Ancestral Symbol burned, the Ice Ancestral Talisman tempered, the life and death ancestral talisman balanced, and the space ancestral talisman stabilized.

The eight ancestral talismans operated at full strength, suppressing, decomposing, and transforming that violent power bit by bit.

But the power of the emperor pill prototype was far too vast.

A Half-step Dou Di existence, even if beaten back to its original form by the Supreme Alchemy Art, still possessed power that an ordinary Dou Sheng could not withstand.

Shen Wen's face was as pale as paper, and beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks from his forehead.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, the verses of the Past Amitabha Sutra flowed silently, and golden characters slowly turned in the depths of his Soul, guarding his last shred of clarity.

Days passed by.

The door to the Quiet Room remained tightly shut.

Cao Ying would come to the door every day to stand for a moment, listening for any movement inside, and then turn to leave.

Xiao Yi Xian managed the affairs of the residence in an orderly fashion, not allowing anyone to disturb him.

Dan Chen spent several hours every day in the Pill Refining Room, and all the Medicinal Pills she refined were sent to the door of the Quiet Room and sucked inside by an invisible force.

Tang Huo'er and Qing Lin took turns guarding the door of the Quiet Room, never leaving for a second.

Cai Lin held One Thought and occasionally came to take a look; she didn't speak, just stood for a while before leaving.

When Zi Yan arrived from Dragon Island, she was already showing her pregnancy.

She stood at the door of the Quiet Room, her hand placed on her slightly bulging lower abdomen, her purple-gold eyes shimmering with light.

"Brother Shen Wen, you're going to be a father."

She said softly, her voice very light, as if afraid of disturbing the person inside.

There was no response from the Quiet Room.

Zi Yan stood for a moment and then turned to leave.

In the outside world.

During the days of Shen Wen's seclusion, the continent's winds and clouds shifted.

The Hun Clan no longer hid themselves.

Hun Tiandi personally took action, repeatedly sending out troops in an attempt to invade the other ancient clans. But every time, he was blocked by Gu Yuan.

The clash between two Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng shook the heavens and split the earth, leveling mountain ranges spanning thousands of li across the Central Plains.

Neither could do anything to the other.

But outside the main battlefield, the people of the Hun Clan began hunting Alchemists everywhere.

From all over the Central Plains, news of missing Alchemists kept coming in.

The conflict between the Pill Tower and the Hun Clan continued to escalate, evolving from initial regional friction into an all-out confrontation.

Xuan Kongzi led the experts of the Pill Tower on rescue missions everywhere, Tian Leizi presided over Pill City, and Xuan Yi was responsible for intelligence and logistics.

Jin Danzi and Old Man Shennong guarded the Pill Tower to prevent any sudden attacks from the Hun Clan's high-level Dou Sheng.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

But the hearts of the women were always anxious over that Quiet Room in the Shen Residence.

It had been a long time.

Shen Wen had been in seclusion for a very long time.